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O caso aconteceu neste sábado (10/7), na região onde é realizada a tradicional feira do Bairro Esplanada, em uma área de grande movimentação. Enquanto um agente abordava um motorista, o prefeito apareceu questionando se ele estava multando-o.  Sem que deixasse nenhum dos dois se explicar, disparou em tom alterado: “Se você tiver feito alguma multa para ele eu vou rasgar agora”. O condutor tenta explicar a razão da abordagem, mas é interrompido.  O guarda também, por várias vezes, pede calma ao prefeito e que ele os escute. Diante das negativas, tenta convencê-lo a ir...

  Local Workers and Local Labor Unions Unite in Support of Heather Hutt for California’s 54th Assembly District By Sentinel Staff Report Heather Hutt (Courtesy Photo) In a time when African American women are fighting for a voice in Sacramento, local labor unions say Heather Hutt is the leader we need in Sacramento to fight for the working class. Heather Hutt comes from a working-class family in the Leimert Park neighborhood, right off of Crenshaw Blvd.  She is a single mother who has raised three sons on her own and has worked her entire life towards a better life for her community.

(Mario Tama / Getty) A dozen years ago, I visited the Chicago offices of the National Nurses Organizing Committee on the city’s West Side. Visible through a large window was a gigantic parking garage, an annex to one of the equally huge hospitals clustered within a dozen blocks. Cook County, Mount Sinai, and three other medical complexes employed tens of thousands of workers. Among those seeking to organize them was an African American NNOC staffer. Books in Review The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America By Gabriel Winant She told me she wa...

St. Vincent Hospital nurses in Worcester, Mass. in second week of strike for safe staffing ratios Nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, have entered their second week of an ongoing strike. They are demanding that Tenet Healthcare, which owns St. Vincent Hospital, agree to establish strict ratios for safer patient and workplace conditions. The roughly 700 nurses on the picket line, members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, have been joined by other health care workers, including personal care assistants (PCA), pulmonary technicians and housekeepers, who face simila...